Computer Associates recently made public its acquisition of an e-mail archiving software vendor whose technology CA says will help round out BrightStor, its suite to manage storage. The company did not disclose how much it spent on iLumin Software Services, which was founded in 1996.
Network and systems management vendors have been on a shopping spree of sorts for some time now, and the current must-have item on their list is security information management.
Storage vendor EMC Corp. announced plans this month to acquire content management software company Documentum Inc., a US$1.7-billion deal that has industry analysts applauding.